Women’s Chamber Ensemble and Women’s Glee Club

Music of the Americas explores tradition through well-loved songs and newly arranged choral works. Experience Latin American stories and musics from North and South America.

Saturday, April 11, 8:00 p.m., Fairchild Theatre, MSU Auditorium  
Tickets: $10 adults, $8 seniors, students free.

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MSU Women’s Chamber Ensemble
Sandra Snow, conductor
Meredith Bowen, assistant conductor
Elizabeth Hermanson, assistant conductor
Judy Kabodian, piano

Women’s Glee Club
Holly Lewis, assistant conductor
Kristopher Schave, piano

Program Notes

Our exploration of music of the Americas includes well-loved settings such as the Pablo Casals’ Nigra Sum, the Lange Esto les digo, and a newly arranged choral version of a famous Villa-Lobos song, Modinha. Chabuca Limeña is an unpublished gem about Peruvian singer Chabuca Granda as collected by doctoral candidate Meredith Bowen on the Cuban study abroad initiative.

Sigue was written by MSU composition area student Ivette Herryman Rodriguez. Rodriguez, a native of Cuba, incorporates the traditional clave rhythm and other musical gestures from Cuban musics. The concert includes the fiery setting of El Vito, describing a young woman’s seduction of the young men around her through traditional dance.

Also on the program is Philadelphia-area composer Andrea Clearfield’s Shape of My Soul on the poetry of Susan Windle for choir and string quartet.

Program

WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB

St. Francis in the Americas: A Caribbean Mass
Glenn McClure
    Kyrie
Alex Smith, Daniel Albert, percussion; Tia Harvey, steel drum

Two Night Songs
Imant Raminsh
    Stars Do Tell

La Lluvia
Stephen Hatfield

Music Down In My Soul
Moses Hogan

Fields of Gold
Sting/arr. Deke Sharon
La Paloma
arr. Cristian Grases
Stuart Chapman Hill, guitar; Alex Smith, Daniel Albert, percussion

WOMEN’S GLEE CLUB AND WOMEN’S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE    

Modinha     
H. Villa-Lobos/arr. Williams    

Esto les digo
Kinley Lange

El Vito 
Andalusian/arr. Joni Jensen    

INTERMISSION 

WOMEN’S CHAMBER ENSEMBLE

The Shape of My Soul
Andrea Clearfield
I-Hsuan Tsai, Emily Dupere, Issac Sarver, Mark Dupere, string quartet

Nigra Sum
Pablo Casals                  

Chabuca Limeña
Manuel Alejandr/arr. Jose R. Duran

Sigue
Ivette Herryman Rodríguez